The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-11-26
News of the Week.


During the season that has just closed the
saw mills at Winona, Mimi, haYe cut Sc,
GOO, 600 feet of lumber, %, 600, 900 laths and
sc, 600, 900 shingles.
William Robinson Hill died suddenly in
Worcester, Massachusetts,, on Saturday morn
ing. after an attempt to sneeze. He was
suffering from fatty degeneration of the base
of the brain.
The hog cholera is reported to prevail in 10
counties in Illinois. In some Of these coun-
ties the mortality has amounted to 20 per
cent. among the young stock and so per cent.
among the mature.
Secretary Bayard has chosen George L.
Rives, of New York, to be First Assistant
Secretary of State and Mr.. Rives has accepted
the office. He is a lawyer by profession, and
is only 36 years of age.
A telegram from Gloucester, Massachu-
sets, says that during the year which ended
October 31st, IL vessels in the fisheries bust
ness have been lost, with 127 men, leaving 60
widows and 81 orphans. In addition to those
lost in their vessels Al other seamen met death
by drowning or accident.
The remains of W. D. WEIGH, travelling
salesman for Chicago seed house, were
taken to Waukegan, Illinois, Monday. Welch
had gone out duck hunting on Saturday. The
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searching party was formed, and his body
was found in the boat frozen stiff, about two
hundred yards from the shore.
Advices from Southern Illinois say the
forest fires in the cypress swamps, near Col
coHda, are still burning, and that there has
been great damage done in the bottoms One
young man, while fighting fire on last Friday,
was surrounded by flames and burned to
death. Three houses, several barns and large
amount of fencing have been burned.
A despatch from Austin, Texas, says infor-
nation received there in official quarters
shows that the bandits injecting the Rio
Grande are being hotly pursued and hard
pressed by the Texas Rangers and the Next
can authorities acting in conjunction. The
most noted criminals of the gang have been
killed or captured and the others are scat
tered.
There were two new cases of yellow fever
and one death in Tampa on Sunday. Ten
cases remain in the hospital. A heavy frost
Monday morning is believed to have killed
the disease. The temperature at Augusta,
Georgia, on Tuesday morning, was down to
26 degrees. There was heavy frost through
out Georgia and South Carolina.
The Standard Machine Works Company of
Bay City, Michigan, on Saturday located
new mandatory in Chattanooga. A contract
was also let in Chattanooga on Saturday by
the Arson G.. Wood Mower and Reaper
Works, of Youngstown, Ohio, for the erection
of six buildings, to cost $50, 900. The build
ings are to be completed inside of sixty days,
when the plant will be moved to Chattanooga.
A telegram from Huntingdon, Penna., says
that the Sheriff of Huntingdon county has of
late had an extraordinary amount of business
to attend to. His announcements of sales
last week took up nearly FIVE columns in the
newspapers, aggregating forty properties,
worth many thousands Of dollars. Notwith-
standing the many failures. the manufacturing
industries of the county are quite active.
August Hatzka, has been arrested in Chi
cago on the charge of killing his step-son,
Max Gilman, aged II years. The boy came
home on Monday night, after three months
absence, and Hatzka whipped him with a
strap which had buckle on it. The boy
was found dead in his bed Tuesday morning,
and his face and body were covered with
marks of the strap. The boys mother is
dead.
Harry Lockwood and family live near Mar
ion, Indiana, and went to Marion last Satur-
day morning. The blizzard compelled them
to spend the night with a neighbor. They had
left three children, aged respectively eight,
four years and eighteen months, at home.
When they reached home on Monday, the
youngest girl was frozen to death, and the
other two were so benumed that they could
scarcely speak or move.
Private letters received in New York from
Panama say no work of any Importance is
being done on the canal. Two leading firms
of contractors are said to be financially EN-.
barrassed. Another prominent contractor
claims oyer $500, 400 frhm the company, Of
L h 400 shasi hra-cbf ~ xuorl- nm,
the canal, as died within four months The
Government of Jamaica has ordered an in
yestigation and has sent DIR, Gaylord TO the
lsthmna
A telegram from Memphis, Tennessee, on
Monday, said For the past ten days forest
fires have been burning throughout that
section of country. Travel over the Kansas
City road was temporarily suspended on Satur
day, and trains on other roads were also de-
layed. The long continued drought, which
has prevailed since July, has literally dried up
the country. Navigation is in bad eondi-
ton; steamers cannot find Sufficient water
even in the Mississippi river to carry full car
goes. The fires cover large portions of Ten
nessee, Mississippi and Arkansas and con-
tinue 10 spread.
A telegram from Chicago, ON Thursday,
gays that according to an interview with an
unnamed Anarchist published yesterday,
''there is movement afoot in the principal
cities throughout the country to reorganize
the followers of Spies and Parsons, The
loading spirit is to be Louis Viereck, of Munich,
who will be brought from Germany to Amer
ioa for the special purpose of assuming direc-
ton of the undertaking. 1t is limited that,
when the project is inatured, dynamite throw
ing will be inaugurated on gigantic scale. "
Viereck is SO years of age, native of Berlin,
and son of the actress Viereck, of the Royal
Theatre. Scandal says that the German EN-
peror is his father. Viereck has long been
prominent as Socialist leader and as Q law
Yer, journalist and member of the Raie hstag.